Universal Pictures present HOBBS & SHAW
CURTAIN RAISER -The Fast and the Furious is Universal’s biggest franchise of all time &ranks as the 9th highest-grossing film series of all time with a combined gross of over $5 billion worldwide! The series of action films that started off with Illegal Street-Racing, Heists & Spy networks has now turned into a much awaited film franchise relished & cherished by film goers of all ages! Dwayne Johnson & Jason Statham reprise their roles as Luke Hobbs & Deckard Shaw in this standalone film!
SYNOPSIS – Beginning at where The Fate of the Furious (2017) ended, DSS federal agent Luke Hobbs & former SAS operative turned mercenary Deckard Shaw- 2 men who intensely dislike each other, are forced to team up to stop a new threat emerging from Brixton Lore (Idris Elba) a former M16 Agent & a cyber-genetically enhanced international terrorist who has created a deadly virus that could threaten the human race! Such a situation leaves Hobbs & Shaw to form their own team to save the human race & the whole universe as well!
Vanessa Kirby appears as Hattie Shaw, an MI6 field agent & sister of Deckard Shaw.
Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs (Johnson), a loyal agent of America’s Diplomatic Security Service, and lawless outcast Shaw (Statham), a former British military elite operative, first faced off in Furious 7 (2015), the duo have always been trying to find out who is better between the both, trying to take each other down at every possible opportunity! Hobbs & Shaw open a new door in the Fast & Furious Universe as it hurtles action across the globe, from Los Angeles to London & from the toxic wasteland of Chernobyl to the lush beauty of Samoa.
CREDITS –Directed by David Leitch; Camera- Jonathan Sela Music-Tyler Bates
Based on the characters by Gary Scott Thompson, Chris Morgan has penned the story & along with
Drew Pearce, Chris has penned the screenplay as well.